Yet another lawsuit has been filed against Lumber Liquidators (Toano, Va.); the latest suit, filed Jan. 14 in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia, is similar to other recent suits and alleges that some of the manufacturer's wood products contained excessive levels of formaldehyde. The Virginia Gazette reports that the class-action lawsuit "seeks in excess of $5 million in damages and injunctive relief on behalf of all purchasers of Lumber Liquidators Chinese-made flooring in Alabama, New York and Virginia, the home states of the four named plaintiffs."
According to the paper, "none of the plaintiffs in the newest suit are claiming formaldehyde affected their health. Instead, they claim they suffered economic harm in buying what they say is substandard flooring."
Two commonalities among all the formaldehyde suits are claims that:1. Lumber Liquidators made false or misleading statements and failed to disclose that certain of the company's products failed to comply with applicable laws and regulations governing formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products.2. The company imported flooring products sourced from illegally logged wood from the habitat of an endangered tiger in Russia, a violation of both U.S. and Russian laws.
